If it's not used on Welsh Wikipedia, maybe the best thing would be to make a Wikidata-based one - just add the blank template to people's articles, and watch it automagically fill with vaules from Wikidata. The last thing the Wikiverse needs is to add the occasional VIAF entry on Welsh Wikipedia as wikitext. Not in 2014.
Cheers, Magnus
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
The English (and many other ) Wikipedias use "Authority Control"; identifiers like VIAF, ORCID and several others, which help us to disambiguate people with the same name, and to be sure that the subject is the same person as that referred to in other sources.
The main tool for doing this is the template:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control
I can see no evidence that the template, or Authority Control in general, is used on the Welsh Wikipedia (I'm not a Welsh speaker). Have I missed somethng? If not, I'd be happy to advise on its implementation.
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